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Mrs. Rich's  Second Grade

While reading the book The Beast in Ms. Rooney’s Room, we made fluffer-nutter sandwiches, just like Matthew in the story.

Amateur "paleontologists" reconstruct dinosaur bones in Science.

Math lessons provide opportunities for “hands on” learning.

Hedgehog had the “help” of his friends to make a yellow cake.  Second graders measured and mixed Hedgehog’s recipe, and made their own yellow cakes.

 

Mother Nature reinforced The Secret Life of Trees, one of our reading stories, when we missed school due to ice.  We had just learned that conifer trees have flexible branches to shed snow and to bend under the weight of snow and ice without breaking.